This short story represents just believing in yourself and not letting people tell what your life should be even though Sonny’s brother had the right to help better his brother’s life. The art of self is the approach in James Baldwin’s short story. Sonny’s brother was separate from him and when Sonny and his brother reunited they were not on the same page because the narrator was looking at his brother, Sonny, and saw a heroin addict, former prisoner, and a musician. All three was not right to him and the term “existentialist hipster hero” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.) was a way for Baldwin to develop these characters to “emphasize the differences between them” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.) and the term “the more idealistic pre-war generation from the more cynical post-war one” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.). Alper Mazman had explained Sonny and his brother differences by
This short story represents just believing in yourself and not letting people tell what your life should be even though Sonny’s brother had the right to help better his brother’s life. The art of self is the approach in James Baldwin’s short story. Sonny’s brother was separate from him and when Sonny and his brother reunited they were not on the same page because the narrator was looking at his brother, Sonny, and saw a heroin addict, former prisoner, and a musician. All three was not right to him and the term “existentialist hipster hero” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.) was a way for Baldwin to develop these characters to “emphasize the differences between them” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.) and the term “the more idealistic pre-war generation from the more cynical post-war one” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.). Alper Mazman had explained Sonny and his brother differences by